The goal of testing is to distinguish between a number of hypotheses about a systemfor example, dierent diagnoses of faults by applying input patterns and verifying or falsifying t...
Today’s complex production systems allow to simultaneously build different products following individual production plans. Such plans may fail due to component faults or unfores...
Global constraints are used in constraint programming to help users specify patterns that occur frequently in the real world. In addition, global constraints facilitate the use of ...
Abstract. Service Level Agreements are a key issue in Service Oriented Computing. SLA contracts specify client requirements and service guarantees, with emphasis on Quality of Serv...
Distributed computing is increasingly important at a time when the doubling of the number of transistors on a processor every 18 months no longer translates in a doubling of speed ...